100 Club Half-Season Review!

22 January 2018 19:00pm

By Darren Lamon

The Sale Sharks '100 Club' continues to bring together rugby union clubs from across the North West of England in partnership with Bollington insurance. Nearly 3000 members of the clubs have attended Sale Sharks games, £18,000 has been gifted back to members and over 100 coaches have attended sessions led by Sale Sharks coaches Pete Angelsea and Jon Callard and there's still 5 months to go...

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The Breakdown with Forwards Coach Pete Anglesea

On Wednesday 6th December Sharks High Performance Center held the first Elite Coaching session of the season with Sale Sharks Forwards Coach Pete Anglesea. 50 plus coaches attended the event from over 30 clubs being represented from across the North West. Coaches had the opportunity to discuss with professional coaches and between themselves on areas of strengths and weaknesses and common team traits they have come across throughout their season so far.

Darren Lamon Rugby Development Officer and SDG Academy Coach who organized the event said "Wednesday was a great night of learning for everybody involved, at the start of the session we discussed that as a group of coaches moving forward we have to get comfortable being uncomfortable, and credit to the coaches they dived straight in and we opened up with group chats about sharing individual coaching highlights and undeveloped strengths in regards to the breakdown.

A "Graffiti" wall up in the theatre room at Carrington where the indoor presentation took place, on the board the coaches wrote common problems and issues with coaching the breakdown both technically and tactically and we made it our job to answer these queries by the end of the evening's sessions." Pete went on to share his philosophy and video clips of first team players and senior academy players on specific technical skill zones in training over the season so far. A real focus from Pete was the message of player safety as coaches and the role we play along with the importance of repetition of the exercises when it comes to the breakdown.

Pete then led an hour session outside with local colt side Sale FC. Pete said "Firstly thank you to the players for letting us take their training session, the standard was really good and it was a challenge to highlight some technical issues to discuss with the coaches during the practical! The coaches asked some great questions and I was impressed with their knowledge and how they were coming up with a lot of answers and solutions themselves through joint discussions. These sessions are powerful and it nice to get out the day to day environment and connect with the community game once in and a while". After the practical everybody went back inside to have a Q&A with Pete, to discuss coaching how skills and the role of the coach/coaches moving forward.

The Kicking Game with Sale Sharks Kicking/Strategy Coach Jon Callard.

On Monday 8th January Sharks High Performance Center held their second Elite Coaching session of the season with Sale Sharks Backs Coach Jon Callard. 50 plus coaches attended the event from over 30 clubs being represented from across the North West. Coaches had the opportunity to discuss with professional coaches and between themselves on areas of strengths and weaknesses and common team traits they have come across throughout their season so far.

Darren Lamon Rugby Development Officer and SDG Academy Coach who organized the event said "Monday was a great night of learning for everybody involved, at the start of the session Jon had the group discuss individual coaching highlights and undeveloped strengths regarding the modern kicking game. A "Graffiti" wall up in the theatre room at Carrington where the indoor presentation took place, on the board the coaches wrote common problems and issues with coaching the kicking game both technically and tactically and we made it our job to answer these queries by the end of the evening's sessions."

Jon went on to share his philosophy and video clips of first team players from Sale Sharks, and players he has coached over the years throughout the England Pathway on specific technical skill aspects of kicking, including footage on how to implement these into game sense training sessions. A real focus from Jon was the message of player safety, having fun, and to make the game more inclusive for all players via coaching through games.

Jon then led an hour session outside with Sale Sharks Academy's Cheshire Central U14s DPP. Jon said "Thank you to the players for letting us take their training session, they were competent at the core skills required to play the kicking games we were focusing on in the sessions, the coaches and school teachers asked some great questions and I was impressed with their technical knowledge, and forward thinking on ideas on how they are going to adapt their coaching individually and as a coaching team to have more of a kicking strategy and run pass kick option in their training sessions and fixture for the reminder of the 2017/18 season.

After the practical everybody went back inside to have a Q&A with Jon, to discuss coaching how skills and the role of the coach/coaches moving forward.

The next Elite Coach Education session is with Sale Sharks Attack Coach Paul Deacon on February 26th 2018.

As Sale Sharks 100 clubs members you are entitled to a coach education sessions which include:

Coach education for your club mini & junior coaches, delivered by our staff that are part of the RFU Coach Education Workforce, to be held at your club

The opportunity to watch 1st team training sessions at Sharks High Performance Centre, Carrington.

The opportunity to become a Sale Sharks Rugby Development Camp host venue with cashback benefits.

As qualified coaches of the RFU Coach Education Workforce we are able to provide professional services such as coach education at rugby clubs including our RFU Accredited Training Centre at The Carrington High Performance Centre. We also offer structured age grade competitions aligned to RFU KidsFirst rules held at the AJ Bell stadium. In addition to this our rugby development camps and pre match coaching clinics offer young players the chance to work with our coaches and a selection of first team players who provide the perfect balance of insight, intensity and fun.
To explore the opportunities further within Sale Sharks Coach Education or to become an official Sale Sharks Camp host venue please contact Rugby Development Officer - Darren Lamon via email darren.lamon@salesharks.com or call 07818509679